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Indonesian Muslim Organization Pushes Back Against Islamist Extremism
December 07, 2015
The Government of Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, is cooperating with the country's leading Islamic public organization to spearhead systematic public education and religious training efforts aimed at countering the spread of the totalitarian extremist Islamism promoted by Islamic State ("IS").
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Boko Haram's Female Jihadis Attack Chad
December 07, 2015
Three female suicide bombers from Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist extremist group that has been steadily expanding its war to impose sharia across West Africa, carried out a series of lethal attacks in the Lake Chad region marked by the militant group's deadly campaigns.
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US Policy Debates on Mideast Refugees Provoke Questions About Islamism
December 07, 2015
The recent Islamic State ("IS") assault in Paris has ignited a firestorm of debate about US policy for Syrian and Iraqi refugees, especially given serious questions about the pernicious threats to constitutional liberties and security posed by refugees who are strictly compliant with sharia law.
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US and Russia Lead on UN Resolution Targeting IS Finances
December 07, 2015
The United States and Russia are leading the effort for a UN Security Council resolution aimed to strangle the financial resources of the Islamic State ("IS"), including sanctions and prosecution for those involved in trade with IS.
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Militant Islamism and Nationalism Fuel Turkey's Growing Intolerance and Violence
December 02, 2015
The deliberate use of exclusivist nationalism and militant Islamism by Turkey's governing Islamist Party ("AKP") to stifle media freedoms and to justify state violence against the country's Kurds and non-Muslims is also fueling growing societal intolerance toward ethnic and religious pluralism and is expanding sympathies for Islamic State ("IS") violent attacks against Western civilian targets.
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